Enterprises commonly set boundaries and processes to control the flow of information, to ensure best practice in activities such as records management, data protection, and compliance. This approach of controlling the information flow is often cumbersome and impacts the ability to manage content throughout the information lifecycle, including capture, storage, retrieval, archival, and disposal.…

I am not knocking those who have probably painstakingly built an organizational taxonomy in Excel. I highly respect them. They are also way ahead of the curve, as they understand what a taxonomy is supposed to do.…

Only 918 reported data breaches led to a whopping 1.9 billion records being exposed, as of September 2017. I would expect the number to rise, although not dramatically, I hope. Compared with the last six months of 2016, the number of lost, stolen, or compromised records increased by 164 percent.…

One of my favorite subjects – metadata tagging. For years, metadata would make business professionals stare glassily into space when explained to them. No more, I hope. Metadata is now information currency and if it isn’t woven into technology frameworks as the critical component in achieving organizational business objectives, then enterprises suffer from content paralysis.…

According to a statistic from Prism International, 67 percent of data loss in records management is due to end user error. All I have is the statistic and no additional information. But if we can agree that the percentage is high and don’t doubt the validity, we can put a stake in the ground for discussion purposes.…

I’ve noticed that from an unstructured and semi-structured perspective that many SharePoint organizations don’t really see the big picture of Information Governance. But they sure know it from the tactical level.…

In Bill Gates’ prophetic statement that ‘content is king’ which I have referred to as ‘context is king’ – it’s really a game of semantics. The ability to drive search through semantics makes content more findable, insightful, and useful.…

I realize I am starting to sound like a broken record in regards to my growing disdain over the hype about ‘Big Data’. We only deal with big data from an aspect of unstructured content so any comments are limited to that use of the term.…

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